I'd like to start today by giving credit to the Longwood Lancers. Coach Mike Gillian (friend of this blog) certainly got some mileage out of the game against the nation's #1 with a pregame feature on espn.com and an appearance on Cold Pizza. Then the 1-12 Lancers did something that neither Wake Forest nor Gonzaga could do - play a reasonably competitive game against Illinois for 30 minutes, eventually losing 105-79. Priceless trivia tidbit: Longwood and Delaware State are the only teams to shoot better than 50% against Illinois so far. That's the same Delaware State squad that missed its first 16 shots against Northwestern last night, in a 50-43 loss.

I promised some comments on the national efficiency stats I posted yesterday. One thing that jumped out at me involves the participants in the big game tonight, the aforementioned Gonzaga at Oklahoma State (correction: game is…

It's kind of bulky and awkward, but I think it does give some unique insight into a few teams out there. The columns are sortable nationally. You can sort the adjusted numbers by conference using the T/O/D selector next to the 'Conf' heading. Unlike the ratings page, this won't be updated daily in the foreseeable future. It will probably be a weekly update until I streamline the process. I'm also thinking of displaying a different "bonus stat" every week.

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